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African Cookbook Project

April 11, 2009

Fran Osseo-Asare deserves a big hand for all her work on raising awareness of African cooking in the United States. The author of Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. Osseo-Asare, a sociologist, initiated a project aimed at collecting African cookbooks, along with TEDGLOBAL in Arusha, Tanzania in June, 2007. One interesting post (among many) on … More African Cookbook Project

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Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2021. President’s Awards Silver Medal, Cookbook, FAPA 2022.

Winner of Best in the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards and Praised by Publishers Weekly as “a remarkable book.”

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My First Book – Mushroom: A Global History

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You’ll find Mushroom: A Global History widely available on many book sellers’ sites.

The book deals with the culinary history of mushrooms. It is NOT a book about mycology, nor does it pretend to be.

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